There's still room in Family Science Time - Saturday, Sept. 25
There's still room in Family Science Time on Saturday, Sept. 25. Join us for a special family adventure for parents and children in grades 1-7. Explore science with your children through hands-on stations, projects, puzzles, and demonstrations and take home a science toy at the end of the day. The adventure takes place from 3:30 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., $10 for one adult and child; $4 for each additional person. Contact Andrea at x8259 or ava...@fnal.gov to register or for more information visit
Lunch and learn about Proton Beam Therapy for Cancer
Join Ken Bourkland in Curia II on Tuesday, September 14 from noon - 1:00 p.m. to learn more about the effects of Proton Beam Therapy for Cancer. Proton Beam Therapy has been used to treat prostate, brain and breast cancer, to name a few. September is Prostate Cancer Awareness month. Prostate Cancer not only affects the patient, but their family members and friends. Stop by to learn more about Proton Beam Therapy Treatment for cancer. For more information call Jeanne in the Recreation Dept. at x2548
NALWO Playgroup Halloween Party
This year's Playgroup Halloween Party is set for Friday, October 26 beginning 5:00pm at Kuhn Barn. ALL Fermilab employees, users, and their families are invited to join us for some ghoulish games, freaky fun, and frightening food. Children and their parents are encouraged to wear their Halloween costumes and have a good time. Bring a dish to share or pay $10 per family to cover the cost of food and beverages. Please visit the playgroup website at to RSVP by October 24.
The Rough Guide to Tango Revival(World Music Network)You say you like your music constructed, arranged, and what's wrongwith Euro? Prove it. As Chris Moss' essay reports and selectionsdemonstrate, Argentina's financial crisis had an upside: an upsurge inBuenos Aires pride embodied in a tango revival that looked to AstorPiazzolla as its fountainhead. But many of the greatinternationalist's habits and innovations owed Europe, and not all ofthese bands are Argentinean. Hungarians and Romanians take naturallyto a violin-bandoneon sound that's perked up by a little cymbalom;Germans butt in as is their musical wont. Every track here rewardsclose attention, some require it, and all justify Moss' programmaticnotes--do actually convey "romance and rancour," "boom-and-bust," and"urban disaffection" musically. To prove how complex tango has become,a bonus disc showcases the simpler soul of Carlos Gardel, whose deathin a plane crash in 1935 sealed his status as tango's first greathero.A MINUS
Loudon Wainwright III: High Wide & Handsome: The CharliePoole Project (161)Young folkies are attracted to their chosen past because it seems soraw. But though young folkie Wainwright twigged to this totemicmountaineer via the line "The beefsteak it was rare and the butter hadred hair," now he's old enough to cook him. Poole didn't write thatline or anything else he sang--he'd perform Paul Dresser's musty "TheLetter That Never Came" as soon as W.C. Handy's hightailing "Ramblin'Blues" if he thought it was good for a drink. And in Wainwright'splentifully illustrated and annotated two-CD tribute, where nine ofthe 29 selections are new songs by Wainwright and/or producer DickConnette, Poole stands as a touchstone of a bygone era. Wainwright issuch a card that you don't think of him as a singer, but he puts morethroat and thorax into the sentimental ballads than Poole had in him,and his barn burners are louder and faster without approaching Poole'srooted assurance or reckless abandon. These conscious misprisions arefine by me. In fact, I'm more likely to play the canny reconstructionthan the certified original. I'm older than Poole ever was.A
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